You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is hell.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN